various opinions have been put forward about achaemenian beliefs and thoughts, especially about the religious beliefs of the achaemenian kings such as cyrus the great. scholars rely on herodotus’s statements that “they didn’t look at building temples and altars as a religious tradition, they refer believing in these things as ignorance and foolishness in the converse opinion to greeks. they did...

Maintaining good memory organization is important in large memory systems. This paper presents a scheme for automatically reorganizing event information in memory. The processes are implemented in a computer program called CYRUS.

Generally, in DNA sequence alignment, we have chosen the substitution matrix δ by assigning a match cost and a mismatch cost. With protein sequences, the situation is more complicated: in some situations, some amino acids are largely interchangeable, and in others, an exchange completely changes the structure and function of the resultant protein. In this sense, all mismatches are not created e...

Orestis A. Panagiotou, MD, PhD; Cyrus M. Kosar, MA; Elizabeth White, PhD, APRN; Leonidas E. Bantis, Xiaofei Yang, ScM; Christopher Santostefano, BSN, RN; Richard Feifer, MPH; Carolyn Blackman, MD; James L. Rudolph, Stefan Gravenstein, Vincent Mor, PhD

Abstract Iran’s armed forces have made tremendous strides since the decade‐long war with Iraq in 1980s. Tehran’s cultivation of ideologically sympathetic forces, along provision material help, has allowed Iran to project power and influence throughout Middle East. Some policy analysts who study military development are biased lack cultural understanding, contending that republic is driven by un...

The human population passed the 7 billion mark last month. As the population grows, the environment, which in turn is necessary for our survival, suffers as a result of increased demand for natural resources and global warming. Key to addressing these challenges will be new knowledge provided by the evolutionary and ecological sciences. But, alarmingly, these areas are underfunded, as Cyrus Mar...